Sunday, October 28, 2012

She Made/She Made October 2012

Hi Y'all

It is time for another installment of She made/She made between Christine Altmiller and myself. The one on one challenge came about when Christine and I met back in July of this year when we gifted each other items that we kept the other half, so we both have the same or similar items. We decided that it would be fun to pick two items a month and make something and blog about it. Christine chose for September and October, I will choose in November and December. Here is what Christine chose for us to create with this month.

I forgot to take a picture of mine before I created my pieces for this challenge, so I manipulated a picture I already had.

My oak leave and drops are not exactly the same as Christine's here is a picture of her's.

I made two different pieces with mine both are necklaces. The first necklace will be with the enameled oak leaf. I can not remember where I got this leaf, but if someone recognizes it please let me know. Being that it is fall I went for a fall theme with this necklace.

I flatten two of the copper bead caps and strung them on each side of the bail for the leaf. I named this necklace Fall's Splendor.

Next I did a necklace using the red Czech glass drops. I used a stitch that Christine gave me the instructions for, we name the stitch the Zig Zag stitch, which it is really the triangle stitch.

I used size 8 hematite seed beads to make the Zig Zag then around the top I used garnet 3 mm round Czech glass beads and along the bottom I used garnet 4 mm round Czech glass beads up to the drops and between each drop then around to the clasp.

I named this piece Red Sky At Night.

Thank you for stopping by and taking a look at what I created for the She made/ She made. We were going to post this on October 30th, but being that Christine lives in the Northeast and Frankinstorm is looming, we decided to go ahead and post today. Please go by Christine's blog to see what she has created with her pieces. Come back the first week in November to find out what we will be creating with in November.

To all my friends and family in the Northeast please be prepared for the worst and be safe. My thoughts and prayers are with you all.

Beautiful! Gorgeous! Fall Splendor reminds me of Colorado in the Fall and the style is so beautiful! I don't know anything about Cellini other than I admire it deeply and your colors are perfect for this piece. The leaf is really cool! Red Sky at Night...Great name, fantastic zig-zag~ I love how sturdy the stitch is and how it can be embellished. What a gorgeous piece all around! Thank you so much for accommodating me and Sandy with this challenge. And as always, thank you for everything else too :-)

Just love the colors in your first necklace, and the element with the bead caps - SO clever. I will have to try triangle stitch - it gives a nice weight to your second piece and creates beautiful structure for those yummy drops.

Of course they're both beautiful, but the second necklace is just luscious! The red in those beads reminds me of beautiful maple trees in autumn -- the one in front of our old house hadn't started turning when we were in Alabama last weekend, but that's the exact color it would be. Gorgeous work!

About Me

Hello, my name is Therese and I live in the great state of Alabama. I love to make jewelry in my spare time. I started making jewelry in 2005. I was looking through a beading magazine and saw a necklace that I fell in love with and just had to make, so I did, and I have been hooked ever since. Along with jewelry making I crochet, paint mostly on glass items, make clothes, quilt, counted cross stitch, and a few other crafts. I'm a mother of one, a handsome young man that is all grown up and on his own.